Thabo Samuel Thoala has over 15 years of experience working in flour milling and production management in Lesotho. He is currently the Head Miller and Production Manager at Lesotho Flour Mills Ltd, where he controls mill operations, supervises staff, coordinates activities, and reports on production. Thabo holds a National Diploma in Industrial Engineering from Port Elizabeth Technikon and certificates in Flour Milling and other courses. He aims to further his career in fields like industrial engineering, technical milling, and project management.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Thabo Samuel Thoala
P.O. Box 157 Cell: (+266) 62884009
Leribe 300 E-mail: thoalat@lfm.co.ls or thoala@webmail.co.za
Lesotho
CAREER OBJECTIVE
I intent to pursue my career in Industrial Engineering, technical milling as well as production
management and project management in order to attain and reward with contributions that will
positively and effectively add value in to achieving the organization goal congruence while
concurrently developing my attributes.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Date of Birth : 29/03/1974
Marital Status : Married
Sex : Male
Nationality : Mosotho
Languages : English and Sesotho
Identity Number : RA070999
Driver’s License : Code B
Attributes : Confident, accurate and vibrant.
WORK EXPERIENCE
October 2005 to date Head miller – Flour (Production Manager) Lesotho Flour
Mills Ltd
Key Result Areas:
 Control
• Control of raw material through the use of FIFO system and ensuring that they are
stored under good condition as well as engaging stock rotation.
• Ensuring that final product specification is at all times achieved.
• Control over labour efficiency in terms of minimizing the overtime payments.
• Control of mill performance and process in terms of maximizing production output.
• Maintaining quality parameters that are within a reasonable standard deviation.
• Control over purification system and the grinding surface.
• Ensuring that our products are uniformly and accurately fortified.
• Ensuring that a high performing but most economic grist/blends is accurately
maintained.

2. • Ensuring that the off-loading operation of wheat intake and railway serving is running
smoothly.
 Supervision
• Supervising the millers, railway services and wheat silo staffing on daily basis.
• Planning all the maintaince tasks to be carried out on our mill and liaise with the team
of technicians.
• Development and implementation of production plans inline with departmental goals
and objectives.
• Preparation and monitoring of staff annual leave plans as well as periodic cleaning
program.
• Engaged in a fumigation process as assistant head of fumigation team.
• Reviewing all the activities carried out by the millers, the mill cleaners as well as the
bran packers.
• Monitoring all the periodic scale calibration and liaising with the external experts every
time need arose.
 Coordination
• Coordinating all the activities within the department and reporting back to the Operation
Director.
• Addressing the quality inconsistencies and making timely corrections.
• Work hand in hand with the health and safety officer to ensure that hygiene and safety
standards are remarkably met.
• Notify the maintaince department about the possible breakdowns to be attended in order
to avoid excessive down times.
• Work hand in hand with the warehouse supervisor to ensure smooth packing.
 Reporting
• To the Operations Director.
• Attend both sales and production meetings on weekly basis.
• Prepares the daily, weekly, monthly production reports and weekly grindout report
subject to the director’s approval.
• Update the production and inventory modules in navision on daily basis whenever
production runs.
• Liaise with the inventory costing section for value analysis.
01th
April 2002 to October 2005 Flour Miller Lesotho Flour Mills Ltd
Key Result Areas:
• Produce good quality flour products as economical as possible.
• Conducts follow up steps to ensure that our products are safe for human consumption.
• Monitor and programme the mill for optimum running to reduce possible breakdowns.
• Aiming to achieve high extractions concurrent with good quality.

3. • Stock management.
• Managing the water addition process to the blended wheat.
• Aiming to achieve as low invisible (milling) loss as possible during the milling process.
June –December 1997 Mechanical fitter (trainee) Lesotho flour Mill
Reasons for leaving
Got promoted to a higher position.
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Tertiary Education
Institution Port Elizabeth Technikon
Period of attendance 1999- 2002
Qualification Obtained National diploma in Industrial engineering
Institution Lerotholi Polytechnic
Period of attendance 1995- 1998
Qualification Obtained Certificate in Fitting and Machining
Institution National Association of British and Irish Millers (Nabim)
Period of attendance 2004 to 2006
Qualification Obtained Advanced certificate in Flour Milling
NOSA course
HASSP Course
Fumigation training
Matriculation
Institution Botha-Bothe High School
Period of attendance 1990 to 1994
Qualification Obtained Cambridge School Certificate

4. Hobbies
Soccer .Watching television. Reading
REFEREES
1. Mr. Alwyn Venter Operation Director
Lesotho Flour Mills Ltd
Private Bag A 62
Maseru 100
Lesotho
Tel. (+266) 58853001 (Mobile)
(+266) 2231 3498 (Office)
Deschepperj@lfm.co.ls
2. Mrs. Likhapha Khitsane Human Resource Director
Lesotho Flour mills
Private bag A 62
Maseru 100
Lesotho
Tel. (+266) 22313498 /247 (Office)
(+266) 63106363 (Mobile)
Khitsanel@lfm.co.ls
3. Mr. Grant Minne Head of Department
Port Elizabeth technikon
+27 (041)5043289
grant@petech.ac.za